Video: The Chosen Lies About Their Accuracy

Does The Chosen accurately capture Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus in John 3?

In this Scripture-first comparison, we place The Chosen’s famous Nicodemus scene beside the biblical text and examine what was retained, rewritten, rearranged or omitted. We consider “I believe” versus “we know,” the missing “Amen, amen,” the meaning of being born again, Jesus’ illustration of the wind and its sound, the plural language of “we speak” and “our witness,” the bronze serpent, and the condemnation passage that disappears from the scene.

The comparison also examines the overall numbers: The Chosen uses approximately 1,070 spoken words compared with roughly 419 in John 3, yet retains only about 70% of the biblical dialogue through direct quotation or recognisable paraphrase. Does its additional dialogue clarify Jesus’ teaching—or disrupt the carefully connected argument recorded by John?

For those who are interested, this is the file used for the comparison between transcript and Scripture.